After Dharali , Harshil in Uttarkashi and Sainjee, Burans villages under Pabo development block tragedies though entire Uttarakhand at several places is confronting, the problems of excessive rains, cloud burst and flash floods with people’s lives in extreme danger, the Uttarakhand’s capital Dehradun is also suffering from massive flash floods with several shops swept away and destroyed as the ravishing flash floods at Maaldevta in Raipur too the river is over flowing with several cows being swept away in the ravishing floods including cars submerged , the situation at Dehradun Shastradhara IT Park the roads are over filled with ravishing floods with several cars submerged not able to move and at Bindal nadi too which is on high tides, the situation is grim with hundreds of houses being submerged with muddy and silt water and almost peoples’ movement blocked.
The citizens in Dehradun are in real mess and movement on roads is not only not feasible but there are traffic snarls for hours together on massive scale.
One of the Facebook user has written of social media on the prevailing Dehradun water logging and all its rivulets and rivers on ravishing flooding mode :
The government is not helpless, it is patronizing land mafia, mining mafia, water, forest and land mining mafia, has the condition and direction of entire Uttarakhand been changed in Dehradun? Mafias of Delhi NCR, West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana have bitten the whole of Uttarakhand including Dehradun, the demography of Uttarakhand has been changed, and both the national parties have an active role in this. Not a single Chief Minister has come who has any vision for this hill state wrote annoyed Girish Chandra Pokhriyal.
Meanwhile Anoop Nautiyal founder SDC and an enlightened social activist has unambiguously said that after the Dharali Uttarkashi disaster, the entire state of Uttarakhand has learnt that no kind of construction should be done over the rivers.
Today, the fierce form of rain in different parts of Dehradun city has put a big question mark on the 26 kilometer proposed Rispana Bindal Elevated Corridor.
The question is, in this dangerous era of climate crisis and extreme weather events, should the city of Dehradun go ahead with this project?
Traffic is a big problem for the city but we should find a solution to it through public transport, walking, cycling and other means and not move ahead by dumping millions of tonnes of cement and concrete in our rivers said Anoop Nautiyal in his video released in FB.
